Deenta 4 – Humility or Dependence

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Deenta 4 – Humility or Dependence

by Sant Chandra Prabhaji

Lord does not like ego at all, He likes humility and to please Him, one should become humble. He dotes on those who become humble.

Deen, garibi, bandagi, sadhan ke adheen

{Humility, poverty, devotion and one who acts on the word of saints.}

We should assume humility and poverty. Rabindranath Tagore once went to Japan and gave a series of evening discourses on Gita for ten days. A number of people used to come to hear him, amongst them was an ordinarily dressed old man who used to come earlier than anyone but always sat at the back. When the series of discourses got over, he folded his hands and invited Tagore to come to his place for a meal, which Tagore accepted. The man brought a big car, adorned with a lot of flowers to take Rabindranathji home. Tagore thought that this man must have spent so much on hiring such a big car as he himself seemed to be from an ordinary economic background. Then the old man took him to a palatial house and seated him on a chair made of gold and was served with numerous dishes on gold and silver plates. Rabindranathji asked him, “whose house have you got me to, I thought you were going to take me to your home”.

The old man replied humbly, this house is yours, these are my four sons and this is my family. I have two mills, there are other chairs like the one you are sitting on, there are other cars like the one you came on - but to be proud of this wealth is foolishness, this wealth cannot lead to self-realization. The self knowledge you have given me, that is the real wealth, this other wealth will remain here. He went on, I came to your door as a beggar, only then could I get the knowledge of the self from you. Hearing this, Rabindranathji was very happy and said, you did not have attachment to the worldly wealth, you wanted self-realization, so the Lord, sent you to me. We can get self knowledge only by His grace. Those who have wealth of this world, but no attachment to it, such wealth is beneficial. Such wealth gives happiness and remains stable in that place. Wealth stays only at a place where people respect self-realization, which is the real wealth which goes with us. Those who meditate, the fruits of the meditation remain with them and they make palaces of gold for themselves in the other world – beds of gold, vessels of gold and everything made of gold. Those who meditate will see this in their meditation.

Taake sang mein rahun jyon, paani sang meen

{I remain with you as water remains with the fish.}

Lord says that I remain in this manner with those souls, who have meditated and reached higher regions. In my ocean of love, they immerse themselves and get such bliss as fishes in the water.

Deen lambe mukh saban ko, deen lakkhe na koi

Kahe girdhar deen na lakkhe, deen bandhu sam hoye

{Those who are humble, look at everyone’s face but no one looks at them. Only a saint, who has become one with the Lord, will look at such a person.}

Those who become humble, look at everyone’s face. I also used to look at everyone’s face in the ashram, that someone will speak to me, but no one used to talk to me. I used to tell Maharajji that everyone hates me here, no one speaks to me. Maharajji used to say, that I don’t hate you, I love you. If everyone hates you let them do that, you come for me, I love you, you keep coming to meet me.

Ek baani jo deenta, santan kiya vichaar

Yahin bhet gurudev ki, sab kuchh guru darbar

{Humility is the best, saints have said this after contemplation. It is a gift from the Master, and everything is in Guru’s court.}

Humility is the best, saints have contemplated on all the virtues and come to this conclusion. Humility transforms a human to his superhuman state.

Tulsi meethe vachan se sukh upje chahu ore

Vashikaran ye mantra hein, tu taj de vachhan kathor

{Tulsi with sweet speech, happiness is generated in all four directions. This is the mantra to influence everyone, leave the harsh language.}

Sweet speech is the essence of all qualities. Those who speak sweet language, they are happy within themselves and those who hear them also become happy. You should completely leave speaking harsh language. When we speak harsh language we indulge in violence - our harsh words hurt others.

Jo tainu piya milan di sikhata, hiya na thai kai da

{If you have the desire to meet your loved one, do not hurt anyone.}

This is from the Gurbani, if you want to meet the dear Lord, do not hurt anyone. To hurt someone is the biggest violence, because God resides in everyone’s heart, so we should always speak sweetly and lovingly. If we go to any saint or enlightened person, we should go humbly, we can get the spiritual wealth only if we go in all humility.

Deen garibi bandagi, sabse aadar bhav

Kahe Kabir tehi bada, ja mein bada subhav

{Humility, poverty, devotion and respect for all. Kabir says, one who has a good nature is the one who is great.}

There was a king, who was very cruel and ordered a man named Diamond to be hanged for a crime which was not that big. Diamond had a friend, who, when he came to know of the punishment, went to see him. Diamond told him that I have no problem if I get hanged, but I want to see my wife and children once. They are very far across the sea, if the king releases me for a few days, I will meet them and come back. His friend went to the king and with all humility asked him to release his friend so that he could meet his wife and children and then he could hang him. The king asked, will you stand as surety for him and be in the jail till he comes back, if he does not return by the appointed hour, we will hang you. Without asking Diamond, he said yes and was locked up in jail and Diamond was released to meet his wife and children. The day for the hanging came and Diamond had not returned, so his friend was instead taken for hanging. He said to the hangman, hurry up, hang me quickly, Diamond has not come on time as the wind is blowing against him but could be here any minute. At the same time a voice came - Stop, Diamond has come - Diamond did not even climb the stairs and jumped straight from there. Diamond exclaimed that I thank God that you are safe. To which his friend replied, couldn’t you have been delayed by just two more minutes, they would have hanged me by then and you would have been saved. Seeing this, the king came down from his throne and said that these friends have melted my heart, I cannot break their friendship, I also want to become like them. Kabir sahib says:

Kabir nave so aap ko, par ko nave na koye

{Kabir if someone becomes humble, it is for oneself and not for anyone else.}

King Ibrahim left his kingdom of Balak-Bukhara and went in search for God, but the first city he visited, the news of his arrival spread and everyone came to see him. He wanted seclusion to pursue his quest so he went to a barber to change his look, so that people could not recognize him. The barber he went to was a devotee and had a principle that he used to cut hair of people only as per their place in the queue. Ibrahim was in a hurry to get out of there and thought that if I give him a big reward, he will cut my hair first. To entice him, he put gold bars in a bag and threw in front of the barber. It was a Friday that day and the barber used to distribute all his earnings of Friday among the poor, so he threw the gold bars also in the basket for giving to the poor. Ibrahim had to wait for his turn, which took long hours. Sitting there, he realized his folly and started scolding his mind, that you have left the palace but not your ego, you deserve a hard punishment for this.

When he got his haircut and came out, he saw a throng of people who had come to see the king who had renounced everything. Not recognizing him, someone asked, do you know where king Ibrahim is staying? He replied - do not take the name of that cruel, egoistic sinner in front of me. People took affront that he was calling such a religious king as cruel and started beating him. Someone kicked him while others punched him till he started bleeding. He got up and told himself, o’ mind you deserved this, in fact I say that you should get punished even more because you have no humility. You still have conceit of being a king.

In his search for the Lord, he reached Kabirdasji’s doorsteps. When he asked to be admitted there, Kabirdasji said, you are a king and we are ordinary people, sometimes we have to eat just peanuts and sleep, how will you be able to eat the food we eat. Ibrahim said, whatever you give me, I will eat, but I will not leave till I meet the Lord. Six years of his stay there passed and he used to do all the house work quietly. Seeing this mother Loi (Kabirdasji’s wife) said, Maharaj, please give him something. Kabirdasji said, he has still not become deserving, but mother Loi was not convinced, so Kabirdasji asked her to throw some dirt on him from the roof and see what he says. When mother Loi threw dirt on his head, he said, “if I was in Balak-Bukhara, I would have seen, who could put dirt on my head”. Kabirdasji said, see he still has the pride of his being a king. Six more years passed, when Kabirdasji told mother Loi that I will give him spiritual wealth today. Mother Loi said, I find him the same as what he was six years back. Kabirdasji said, no, today you put sewerage on his head and see. When she did so, he said, “I should be treated even worse than this as I am a sinner, twelve years have passed serving here and I am so bad that I still have not got any spiritual wealth”. Mother Loi, reported this back to Kabirdasji, who said, look do you see the difference, hasn’t he become deserving, hasn’t he become humble. Kabirdasji blessed him with unlimited spiritual wealth.

After that one day Ibrahim was sitting near the river and sewing his clothing, when his former kingdom’s minister passed by. The minister recognized him and implored him to come back and take care of the kingdom. Ibrahim threw the needle he was sewing with into the water and asked him to get it back for him. The minister said, I will get you thousands of needles but I am unable to get this one for you as I have no idea where it has gone. Then Ibrahim pointed towards the water and a fish brought the needle upto him. He said, you see, I don’t need my kingdom, this entire world is my kingdom. God has given me the freedom to do whatever I want. There is no price for humility, to get humility one doesn’t need to spend any money, but one who becomes humble can get anything that person wants. Ibrahim was humble for his own good, we should understand that we meditate for ourselves. We come to the Guru, not for his benefit but for our own benefit.

Aap mete tu mile, tiya mein raha samaaye

{By destroying my ego, You can be gotten and I will merge into You.}

Those who get rid of their ego can reach the Lord and they merge in the Lord. This story of love is one to experience not to state.

To be continued

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